The Delhi High Court has granted interim relief to luggage brand Mokobara in a trademark infringement case, restraining the defendants from manufacturing identical products.
As per media reports, Justice Amit Bansal observed that, prima facie, the defendants were infringing Mokobara’s trademark rights by producing and selling products that were deceptively similar, if not virtually identical.
The court restrained the defendants from using luggage designs and trade dress that closely resemble Mokobara’s registered trademarks, citing a strong prima facie case of infringement and consumer confusion.
As per media reports, the Court noted, “In my prima-facie view, the use of the Device is confusingly similar to the Registered Device of the Plaintiff (Mokobara products) and amounts to infringement of the Plaintiff’s rights. Also, the Impugned Trade Dress, is virtually identical with that of the Plaintiff’s Trade Dress and therefore violates the Plaintiff’s common law rights in the same.”
“The Defendants cannot possibly have any plausible justification to adopt the Impugned Device and the Impugned Trade Dress in respect of identical products, being suitcases, except for an ulterior motive to misuse the reputation of the Plaintiff’s Registered Device and Trade Dress and thereby pass off its goods as that of the Plaintiff’s goods. A prima facie case is, thus, made out on behalf of the Plaintiff,” the order stated.
The order was passed ex parte as no counsel appeared for the defendants despite receiving prior notice.
Mokobara’s legal team argued that the brand’s uniquely rectangular design and distinctive trade dress are protected under registrations granted by the Trade Marks Act.
In April 2025, Mokobara came across a website named ‘Ventex Germany’, operated by the defendants, which was found to be selling lookalike suitcases under the brand name ‘Greenland’. The Court was also informed that the defendants had been extensively promoting these products on social media.
Mokobara argued that the defendants had replicated every distinctive element of its suitcases – from the unique colour combinations, piping, and horizontal ridges to the placement of the logo and the signature yellow checkered inner lining, which features squares marked with the letter ‘m’.
The matter is set for next hearing on October 10, 2025.
